"And when you're talking about an atmosphere, oceans are very small. And it blows over and it sails

[riversedge]

TRUMP IS A BLABBERING IDIOT



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"And when you're talking about an atmosphere, oceans are very small. And it blows over and it sails over. I mean, we take thousands of tons of garbage off our beaches all the time that comes over from Asia. It just flows right down the Pacific, it flows."

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THIS IS THE PART OF THE INTERVIEW RELATED TO THE TWEET ABOVE****




President Trump’s full Washington Post interview transcript, annotated


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/27/president-trumps-full-washington-post-interview-transcript-annotated/?utm_term=.2bc4b8f5b000




By Aaron Blake
November 27 at 6:16 PM

President Trump sat for an interview Tuesday with The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker and Josh Dawsey. Below is the full transcript, with key segments highlighted for fact-checking and analysis.

Explanations appear under the paragraphs with highlighted text.





......................DAWSEY: You said yesterday when you were leaving that you were skeptical of a climate change report that the government had done. Can you just explain why you're skeptical of that report?

TRUMP: One of the problems that a lot of people like myself — we have very high levels of intelligence, but we’re not necessarily such believers. You look at our air and our water, and it’s right now at a record clean. But when you look at China and you look at parts of Asia and when you look at South America, and when you look at many other places in this world, including Russia, including — just many other places — the air is incredibly dirty. And when you’re talking about an atmosphere, oceans are very small. And it blows over and it sails over. I mean, we take thousands of tons of garbage off our beaches all the time that comes over from Asia. It just flows right down the Pacific, it flows, and we say where does this come from. And it takes many people to start off with.

Few Trump quotes have epitomized him like this one. He has been skeptical of U.S. intelligence, the judiciary, the legal system, climate change, and many other institutions and other sources of expertise.

TRUMP: Number two, if you go back and if you look at articles, they talked about global freezing, they talked about at some point the planets could have freeze to death, then it’s going to die of heat exhaustion. There is movement in the atmosphere. There’s no question. As to whether or not it’s man-made and whether or not the effects that you’re talking about are there, I don’t see it — not nearly like it is. Do we want clean water? Absolutely. Do we want clean air to breathe? Absolutely. The fire in California, where I was, if you looked at the floor, the floor of the fire, they have trees that were fallen, they did no forest management, no forest maintenance, and you can light — you can take a match like this and light a tree trunk when that thing is laying there for more than 14 or 15 months. And it’s a massive problem in California.

This claim has been put forward by White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. It got four Pinocchios from The Washington Post’s Fact Checker.

DAWSEY: So you’re saying you don’t see the —

TRUMP: Josh, you go to other places where they have denser trees — it’s more dense, where the trees are more flammable — they don’t have forest fires like this, because they maintain. And it was very interesting, I was watching the firemen, and they’re raking brush — you know the tumbleweed and brush, and all this stuff that’s growing underneath. It’s on fire, and they’re raking it, working so hard, and they’re raking all this stuff. If that was raked in the beginning, there’d be nothing to catch on fire. It’s very interesting to see. A lot of the trees, they took tremendous burn at the bottom, but they didn’t catch on fire. The bottom is all burned but they didn’t catch on fire because they sucked the water, they’re wet. You need forest management, and they don’t have it.

Trump previously lodged an odd theory, citing Finland, about how raking brush in forests could prevent forest fires. Finland dismissed the idea, but here Trump expands upon his odd ideas about how such things could be avoided.

RUCKER: Mr. President, there’s a lot of economic news, too..................................

[Solly Mack]

1. Make it stop.

[HopeAgain]

2. Trump tells us something about our Democracy

and it is not good. To elect such a blabbering fool, something in America has gone very, very wrong. It as if half of America wants to reject intelligence. I am beginning to believe that the most prophetic movie that I have seen in the last 20 years is Idiocracy.

[PCIntern]

3. Oh My Fucking God...paucity of language in extremis

He makes W sound like Winston Churchill.

There is just SO MUCH DISEASE HERE...

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Like Sarah Palin post-lobotomy.

[secondwind]

5. When will this nightmare END??!!?

[maxsolomon]

8. January 2025, most likely.

Or later if he just decides to suspend the Constitution. Not like anyone will stop him; they'll just Tweet about it.

Oh well!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. an' dark, an' dark, an' nowhere light

And so the flibgoblet nagleschorps the krappleverg. This means we have feathers, so we must sell.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. FANTASTIC!

As excellent a synopsis that could have been provided by anybody!

[smirkymonkey]

9. OMG, I can't believe the interviewers aren't laughing in his face.

This is such a joke! Actually, it's not, because this is our president and he is a raging moron. Please let it end soon!

[peekaloo]

10. sat down for a gut clearing

with a pic to prove it.